The Old Quotes
I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong.
I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like old friends, you know 'em the minute you see 'em.
I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.
And if you call one a real estate agent and he won't sell you anything. He is a REALATOR. It's the same as what the old fashioned real estate agent used to be only the commission is different.
Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would be against God's Providence.
You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?
Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.
We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.
... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.
How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.
What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!
The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it.
I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.
An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity!
I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.
Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young.
What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?
I would dearly love to take up the brush again, but I realize that I am an old man and that I cannot set the world afire.
A lot of the old movie theaters are closing down now, which is really sad. It's still in the back of my mind.
I'm not a big one on - I don't know what to call it - getting all glamorous. I don't really worry about my looks, and I don't worry about getting old. Exterior beauty doesn't mean a lot to me.
I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
I always try to go back and check my old stuff. It's like watching the tapes of the game. You want to go back and go as hard as before.
People ask me, 'Did the fame come too fast? Do you ever wish for your old life?' I always tell them that there's nothing on earth better than being famous.
My father, my Rastafari culture, has a tight link to the Jewish culture. We have a strong connection from when I was a young boy and read the Bible, the Old Testament.
My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this.
O-o-old habits die hard when you got, when you got a sentimental heart Piece of the puzzle, you're my missing part Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart?
The same styles you used earlier may become monotonous over time. You want to remain relevant, so you got to change that style. Reinvent yourself always: You must create a new you
Until you fall in love with positive change, becoming passionate about improving the status quo, you won’t become a leader.
A leader’s goal is to improve on upon the past and if your goal is to remain where you are, doing the same things you have done times and times again, you can’t lead.
If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it.
Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age.
Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark.
One of the first steps to successful leadership is to always forget your age and remember your dream regularly.
By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.
Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty.
The most classic horror tale of this latter type is the Old Testament story of Job, who becomes human Astro-Turf in a kind of spiritual Superbowl between God and Satan.
All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes — a fact which is recognized in the extra ration issued to old-age pensioners.
Truly, the old maid is a most useful person, one of the reserve forces of the community. They talk of the superfluous woman, but what would the poor superfluous man do without her kindly presence?